Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff backup doing is doing a full restore every time

[Davy Durham]

Sorry.. my bad.. dumb user error.. turns out my restore script was using 
a backup tree from an older version of rdiff-backup

So it's working great!

-- Davy

Davy Durham wrote:

> Question..
>
> I'm using rdiff-backup 1.0.0 (no patches)
> The backups were ONLY created with 1.0.0
>
> For machines A, B and C,
>    - I've done a backup from A to B
>    - then I'm doing a restore from B to C
>
> The first restore from B to C is transfering every file from A's 
> backup to the system, C (I think every file.. looks like it at least)
> Then when it's done if I immediately do the same restore it copies 
> everything again.. as if it's not seeing that all the files are then 
> same as on the destination.
> Running on B, the restore command line looks like:
>
> rdiff-backup -v5 --print-statistics --exclude-device-files 
> --exclude-filelist ../../bin/exclude.lst --exclude-globbing-filelist 
> ../../bin/exclude.additionally_when_restoring.lst --restore-as-of 0D 
> --force . address@hidden::/
>
> Is --force the problem?  I thought that makes it delete on the 
> destination what didn't exist on the source which is how I want it to 
> behave.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Please Help,
>   Davy
>
>
>
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